We ’ve have it off for months that Hillary Clinton ’s use of private electronic mail for official businesswas a security measures nightmare . Now we ’re starting to find out a niggling act about how that incubus unfolded . hacker from at least three countriestargeted her serversafter she left office in 2013 .
This should n’t be a surprisal , although it is pretty disconcerting . A congressional document find by the Associated Press says that Clinton ’s servers were the subject of plan of attack from China , South Korea , and Germany . This detail from the AP reportis passably speculative :
While the attempt were apparently blocked by a “ threat monitoring ” mathematical product that Clinton ’s employee relate to her internet in October 2013 , there was a period of more than three month from June to October 2013 when that protection had not been set up , according to a missive from Republican senator Ron Johnson , chairman of the homeland security and governance amour citizens committee . That means her server was possibly vulnerable to cyber - attacks during that meter .
The AP added :
It was not immediately unclouded whether the attempted invasion into Clinton ’s waiter were serious espionage threats or the sort of nuisance attacks that hit computing machine servers the world over .
This risk was immediately clear-cut from the bit we learned that Hillary Clinton , a frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election , made extremely raw information less good by using a private email waiter . Clinton say that she did so to avoid juggling multiple devices — although now we knowthat excuse was bullshit . The congressional investigating is now revealing all variety of things about how shewas email classified information over private linesand getting whoop around the same time . But of course of study she was .
It remain undecipherable how this slow - burning scandal will unfold . Hopefully it ’s just more unenviable newsworthiness for this pol who wants to be chairperson . In the worst - grammatical case scenario , some cyber-terrorist indeed got in , and we just do n’t know it yet . But we do know that they were trying .
[ AP ]
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